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The move to Mill Hill

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Polly Matzinger

Avrion Mitchison Scientist

	Views	Duration
51. Going to Czechoslovakia and a paper on vegetative hybridization	104	04:18
52. Harvard with Jim Watson	188	02:08
53. Robin Coombs	81	00:57
54. Starting work on peripheral tolerance	98	03:28
55. Polly Matzinger	353	00:25
56. The move to Mill Hill	147	02:49
57. The Mill Hill days: changes in immunology	136	01:40
58. Working on tolerance	127	05:52
59. The next step in understanding tolerance	95	01:21
60. The four groups investigating T-cells	101	04:28

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There is a statue of Isaac Newton at the other end of the building on the staircase, and as Polly Matzinger, who in her opinion, introduced the notion that bacterial products were essential to simulate the immune response, past the statue, she said, yes. Isaac Newton and me.

Avrion Mitchison, the British zoologist, is currently Professor Emeritus at University College London and is best known for his work demonstrating the role of lymphocytes in tumour rejection and for the separate and cooperative roles of T- and B-lymphocytes in this and other processes.

Title: Polly Matzinger

Listeners: Martin Raff

Martin Raff is a Canadian-born neurologist and research biologist who has made important contributions to immunology and cell development. He has a special interest in apoptosis, the phenomenon of cell death.

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Duration: 26 seconds

Date story recorded: June 2004

Date story went live: 24 January 2008